Modern Dictators: Third World Coup Makers, Strongmen, and Populist Tyrants, 1987-03

This study discusses how such dictators as Qaddafi, Khomeini, Marcos, Somoza, and Castro, among others, achieved power, how they justified their rule and how they changed the character of the U.N. By Barry Rubin......Page 1 Latin America: Caudillos and Juntas......Page 70 Africa: Founders and Survivors......Page 87 Middle East: System Makers and World Shakers......Page 125 The Ruler’s Rules......Page 182 America and the Dictators......Page 199 Carter, Gwendolen, and Patrick O’Meara. African Independence: The First......Page 224 ARTICLES AND SPEECHES......Page 227 Chalmers, Douglas, and Craig Robinson. “Choose Liberalization: Perspec-......Page 228 Sankara, Thomas. Speech on Second Anniversary of Revolution. Ouaga-......Page 230 Barry Rubin. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 364-374.